The literary Angel
Subtitle: essays on influences and traditions reflected in the Joss Whedon series
By: edited by AmiJo Comeford and Tamy Burnett
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780786446612
Description: "This book brings together essays which engage Angel as a text to be addressed within the wider fields of narrative and literature. It is divided into four sections. Each provides opportunities to examine a variety of characters, tropes, and literary nuances and influences throughout all seasons of the series and in the continuation in comic book form"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Los Angeles, city of story / AmiJo Comeford and Tamy Burnett; title: Archetypes. Biting humor : harmony, parody, and the female vampire / Lorna Jowett; title: Doyle as "the passing figure" and Nella Larsen's Passing / Angel Anderson; title: Pylean idol : L.A.'s de(con)struction of a postmodern bard / Jennifer Hamilton; title: Lilah Morgan : Whedon's legal femme fatale / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan; title: Narrative and identity. Fred's captivity narrative : American contexts for (re)writing community identity from Mary Rowlandson to Angel / Tamy Burnett; title: Feminist abuse survivor narratives in Angel and Sarah Daniels's Beside herself / Anika Stafford; title: Numero cinco, border narratives, and Mexican cultural performance in Angel / Victoria Pettersen Lantz; title: Theory and philosophy. (Re)negotiating the dystopian dilemma : Huxley, Orwell, and Angel / Mary Ellen Iatropoulos; title: Angel vs. the Grand Inquisitor : Joss Whedon re-imagines Dostoevsky / Katia McClain; title: Charles Gunn, Wolfram & Hart, and Baudrillard's Theory of the Simulacrum / K. Shannon Howard; title: "It's a play on perspective" : a reading of Whedon's Illyria through Sartre's Nausea / Cynthea Masson; title: Genre. Helping the helpless : medieval romance in Angel /  Amijo Comeford; title: Whedon meets Sophocles : prophecy and Angel / Laurel Bowman; title: Detective fiction/fictionality from Asmodeus to Angel / Alison Jaquet; title: It (re-)started with a girl : the creative interplay between TV and comics in Angel : after the fall / Stacey Abbott.